Accelerate 365

Deliver a better workplace experience faster

Modernize your workplace platform at lower cost and risk

Accelerate 365 from Avanade lowers the cost and risk of adopting
and maintaining Windows 10 and Office 365 for your enterprise.
It helps to make migrations up to 25% less expensive and 50% faster.

Accelerate 365 supports a more responsive, cost-efficient and

secure workplace platform – helping to deliver a better workplace
experience (WX). From planning and design through pilots, full
deployment and ongoing upgrades, Avanade is with you every step
of the way with our patented tools, methodologies and expertise
in Microsoft technologies.
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You need a new way to modernize your Introducing Accelerate 365

workplace platform Avanade delivers the crucial support your organization
The old way to manage your enterprise software needs to get ahead and stay ahead with Windows 10
was never ideal. Major migrations or upgrades could and Office 365.
take months or years, disrupting end-users, the IT
organization and the business itself. Often it would Accelerate 365 is an end-to-end platform including
end up costing far more than had been budgeted tools, methodologies and best practices that power a
and leave you facing the same cycle again for the highly automated, data-driven and lower-risk approach
next software release. to adopting and maintaining your Windows 10 and
Office 365 enterprise-scale environment. Created and
Today, that old way just won’t work, because developed by Avanade, it’s specially designed to help
Windows 10 and Office 365 are different from all you adapt and grow that environment in the face of
previous versions. As services rather than software continual releases from Microsoft.
packages, new versions come every few months rather
than every few years, and new features come in a Mastering Windows 10 and Office 365 requires bringing
continual stream. There’s no time or money to do things together technology, operations, governance, culture
the way you used to. Anyone still running Windows 7 and employee experience. Only Avanade does this, and
given the January 2020 end-of-support date is courting you can only do it with Accelerate 365.
trouble. You need a new way to get ahead with these
enterprise solutions. With Accelerate 365, you can drive down migration
cost by 25% and speed time to completion by 50%,
Moreover, the benefits of doing so can be extraordinary. deliver great experiences for both end-users and IT,
That’s because Windows 10 and Office 365 are crucial and achieve a new level of collaboration across
components in the transformation of your WX. Done the organization.
right, that transformation can deliver a modernized
platform resulting in measurable improvements
in growth, profitability, efficiency, innovation and
customer experience.

Towergate gains agility,

saves $5 million a year
Europe’s largest independently owned insurance THE RESULTS:
intermediary turned to Avanade and our Accelerate • Migration 50% faster than anticipated, reducing the
365 approach to transform its WX, applications, duration by over 6 months
infrastructure and more. Towergate says it’s now more • Annual IT costs cut 30%, saving $5 million per year
competitive, more collaborative, and better able to • Business agility, competitiveness increased
serve customers.

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Delivering great experiences Great experiences for end users

• Self-service capabilities give your end-users more
We understand the challenges you control over their migrations, so they always know
face in adopting and maintaining Windows 10 and what’s going on
Office 365 in an enterprise environment: end users • Organizational change-management capabilities
who feel they’re out of the loop and minimize end-user disruption during migration
not in control of their migrations, and IT that lacks • Users stay current on their latest Windows 10 features
the tools to optimize the process and to keep the with better information and easy-to-digest updates
environment up-to-date and at peak effectiveness. • Automated application testing to minimize testing
time and effort
With Accelerate 365, you gain the responsive, cost-
efficient and secure workplace platform that delivers a Great experiences for IT
better workplace experience. Here’s how: • Readiness management across your applications,
devices and users reduces service desk calls and
Great business/IT collaboration impact on your users
• Deployment planning and management based on • Predictive analytics and a comprehensive BI toolset
your business goals, with direct business engagement deliver faster rollouts and fewer failed migrations
that empowers the business and IT and deskside visits
• Robust reporting and consistent communications • Automated checklists industrialize your processes
via our Business Intelligence dashboard, bringing to reduce risk and facilitate automated scheduling
together data from your disparate management tools and deployment
for better, faster, data-driven decision-making
• Tools that empower the business to reduce the
impact, increase predictability, and control migrations
and updates
• Evergreen services so you continue to maximize your
ROI as new features and versions become available

Fortune 50 bank migrates 425,000+ machines

with Accelerate 365
This global Fortune 50 bank turned to Avanade for THE RESULTS:
the migration and management of half a million • Data integrity up >4X in six months
machines at a rate of up to 40,000 per month. The • Single source of truth across 13 disparate data sources,
resulting desktop modernization boosts WX, reduces IT 250,000 employees and 160 countries reduced
overhead, and improves productivity. rework, boosting customer satisfaction and security
• Proactive identification of operational issues reduces
failure rates and IT costs

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Why Avanade? Ready to transform your workplace

Accelerate 365 is based on Avanade’s unmatched
experience with Windows 10 and
expertise in Microsoft technologies – expertise that’s Office 365?
helped us to earn Microsoft SI Alliance Partner of the
Watch our video to learn more about how we can bring
Year award for an unprecedented 14 years.
the benefits of Accelerate 365 to you.

We have the vision to help you fully exploit Windows

Find out more at [Link]/wxplatform
10 and Office 365 as part of a broader, transformative
workplace experience. And we back up that vision with
the experience that comes from having migrated more
than 10 million devices to Windows and deployed
more than 8 million seats of Office 365.

We don’t just talk the talk: Our own environment is one

of the largest Windows 10 and Office 365 enterprises in
the world. What we do for us, we can do for you.

About Avanade Global Headquarters

Avanade is the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, Seattle
business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem. 1191 Second Avenue
Our professionals bring bold, fresh thinking combined with technology, Suite 100
business and industry expertise to help make a human impact on our clients, Seattle, WA 98101
their customers and their employees. We are the power behind the Accenture Phone: +1 206 239 5600
Microsoft Business Group, helping companies to engage customers, empower Toll Free: +1 844 282 6233
employees, optimize operations and transform products, leveraging the
Microsoft platform. Avanade has 38,000 professionals in 25 countries, bringing Visit us at [Link]
clients our best thinking through a collaborative culture that honors diversity
and reflects the communities in which we operate. Majority owned
by Accenture, Avanade was founded in 2000 by Accenture LLP and
Microsoft Corporation. Learn more at [Link].

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